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Word of the year: Shouty

issue 15 December 2018

‘Remind me what incel means again,’ said my husband. There was no point, since he’d forgotten twice already. I suspected a psychological barrier to learning. Incel (a label for people unhappy at being involuntarily celibate) was a runner-up for Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year, won by toxic.

But to me the word that captures the flavour of Britain this year is shouty.

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